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Mediatwits #3: HuffPost Lawsuit and Grading AOL; ‘Write More Good’ Author

Ken Lowery

Welcome to the third episode of “The Mediatwits,” the new revamped longer form weekly audio podcast from MediaShift. The co-hosts are MediaShift’s Mark Glaser along with PaidContent founder Rafat Ali. This week’s show looks at the recent $105 million lawsuit brought against Huffington Post for not paying its bloggers, as well as our grades for AOL’s various business moves, including the hyper-local Patch sites and buying TechCrunch.

Our guest this week is Ken Lowery, one of the co-editors and co-authors of the @FakeAPStylebook on Twitter and the new book “Write More Good.” Plus, we give first impressions on the new “Street Fight” online magazine about the hyper-local news business.

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Intro and outro music by 3 Feet Up; mid-podcast music by Autumn Eyes via Mevio’s Music Alley.

Here are some highlighted topics from the show:

Mark switches from AT&T to Verizon

1:20: Mark loves the Verizon iPhone

2:37: Rafat sticking with AT&T

Huffington Post lawsuit

5:00: Rafat thinks the web is built on user-generated content

6:15: Mike Elk even says he won’t support lawsuit

6:45: Rafat doesn’t believe in unions for writers

Grading AOL

9:15: Mark discusses long history of AOL re-inventions

11:45: Rafat gives an “A” for effort to Patch, but “D” for execution

12:50: Rafat gives a “B” for AOL buying TechCrunch

14:05: Mark gives an “A-” for AOL buying Huffington Post

Q&A with Ken Lowery, co-author of “Write More Good”

15:52: Ken Lowery joins Rafat and Mark

17:55: How the Bureau Chiefs started with a Gmail group

19:20: Rafat says literary agents are trolling Twitter now

21:10: Ken meets woman who runs @APStylebook feed

23:00: Ken talks about “The Content Farm” spoof site

Street Fight website launch

26:33: Mark and Rafat discuss new hyper-local site

27:40: Rafat thinks it’s a longshot to bring in revenues

More Reading

Huffington Post Writer Sues the Huffington Post/AOL at the LA Times

The Unpaid Writers’ Lawsuit Against Huffington Post is Bunk at Slate

Is Blogging for Free Better Than Nothing? at WSJ Speakeasy

About that Lawsuit… by Arianna Huffington

@FakeAPStylebook on Twitter

The Bureau Chiefs

Write More Good

The Content Farm parody site

How to Watch TV at the Content Farm

Street Fight e-magazine

Be sure to vote in the MediaShift poll about the future of AOL:

Mark Glaser is executive editor of MediaShift and Idea Lab. He also writes the bi-weekly OPA Intelligence Report email newsletter for the Online Publishers Association. He lives in San Francisco with his son Julian. You can follow him on Twitter @mediatwit.

Mark Glaser :Mark Glaser is founder and executive director of MediaShift. He contributes regularly to Digital Content Next’s InContext site and newsletter. Glaser is a longtime freelance journalist whose career includes columns on hip-hop, reviews of videogames, travel stories, and humor columns that poked fun at the titans of technology. From 2001 to 2005, he wrote a weekly column for USC Annenberg School of Communication's Online Journalism Review. Glaser has written essays for Harvard's Nieman Reports and the website for the Yale Center for Globalization. Glaser has written columns on the Internet and technology for the Los Angeles Times, CNET and HotWired, and has written features for the New York Times, Conde Nast Traveler, Entertainment Weekly, the San Jose Mercury News, and many other publications. He was the lead writer for the Industry Standard's award-winning "Media Grok" daily email newsletter during the dot-com heyday, and was named a finalist for a 2004 Online Journalism Award in the Online Commentary category for his OJR column. Glaser won the Innovation Journalism Award in 2010 from the Stanford Center for Innovation and Communication. Glaser received a Bachelor of Journalism and Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of Missouri at Columbia, and currently lives in San Francisco with his wife Renee and his two sons, Julian and Everett. Glaser has been a guest on PBS' "Newshour," NPR's "Talk of the Nation," KALW's "Media Roundtable" and TechTV's "Silicon Spin." He has given keynote speeches at Independent Television Service's (ITVS) Diversity Retreat and the College Media Assocation's national convention. He has been part of the lecture/concert series at Yale Law School and Arkansas State University, and has moderated many industry panels. He spoke in May 2013 to the Maui Business Brainstormers about the "Digital Media Revolution." To inquire about speaking opportunities, please use the site's Contact Form.

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